Hey @gmpolice you guys missing TAU tactical aid unit
REG: MX06WGA (ZX02)@gardainfo have it in Dublin. Helping fight crime and protect people.#TakeBackTheCity#IrelandIsRotten pic.twitter.com/ag6SBprCke— Dean Scurry (@deanscurry) September 12, 2018
UK Police involved in #TakeBackTheCity eviction?
Reg plate = MX06 WGA ? pic.twitter.com/KE9fmVeF7w
— Revolution🐊 (@Revolution_IRL) September 12, 2018
According to the source of the top pic, the Greater Manchester Police van was due to be auctioned in 2014.
Anyone?
Pics: Flickr and Jack Power
Earlier: ‘How Can You Justify These Actions?’
Yesterday: What’s Going On Here?
Related: Van used by masked men to secure Dublin property not taxed since 2014 (Jack Power, The Irish Times)
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Yes, these protestors will really jump on any bandwagon…
Yes those balaclava clad armed mob are very threatening..
May i…. :)
Yes, these protestors will really jump on any paddy-wagon…
I missed a trick there :)
WOW!
Owen Wilson is the next post.
I don’t think his wows are full caps. They’re more wondrous wows. Not WOWs!
Maybe not all his Wows are, but surely some are? Surely?
He’s mostly a whisper-wower
as opposed to a bow-wower
I stand corrected.
I mean, it’s a cool piece of detective work, but surely the most likely explanation is that it was decommissioned and sold off to the… what are they called, The Bailiff Company? The Evictors? The Bastarding Feckers? We’re Only Doing Our Jobs Don’t Be Mean We Have Feelings Too Ltd?
The Bastarding Feckers is a spectacular name for a bailiff company. I can see the font on the business cards now.
I ran a DVLA check on https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk – It has no MOT and hasn’t been taxed since August of 2014.
So these masked goons rolled up in a completely illegal vehicle to enforce a court order while being protected by the guards?
What would have happened if they had to have knocked someone down?
Jaysus wept, it is a different van. Look at the windows, and no reg plate from the one in Dublin. Also look at who posted the pics – Revolution Ireland ffs.
At a casual glance I thought the photo at the top was in Dublin. My mistake.
It may well be the same van – nothing in the windows to suggest otherwise. It’s obviously an ex-police van, but that means nothing – anyone can buy one in auction or from resellers.
This is the INLA. They are actively trying to identify gardai and anyone involved. That’s why they wore balaclavas.
https://www.facebook.com/721143134638483/posts/1838631439556308/
If they weren’t wearing masks maybe nobody would be trying to unmask them.
They’ve been posting pictures of unmasked gardai and bailiffs for years so you’re very wrong.
But if there was no tautology, it wouldn’t be tautological…
No they’d instead be hounding family members, friends etc and being general prats
I don’t get why anyone would do this. ‘I was only doing my job’ is not a moral defence, but at the end of the day, neither the Guards nor the bailiffs are the problem here. If the action can be shown to be illegitimate or improper, fine, exploit that through media and/or legal channels, otherwise take the PR win and don’t sully it with harassment and potential violence, that just retroactively justifies the concealment of their faces.
Love the hammer and sickle and the star on their red banner. Are they Stalinists?
You conveniently overlook the fact that one of the protestors was kicked in the head and concussed.
@ George
All those camera phones and no footage of this “assault”. Pity
Camera phones? Is it the 90s? There are photos of some of the injuries in the press.
Camera phones didn’t exist in the nineties in any form. You should have said “is it the late 2000 to early 2010’s?!” although if you said that you would have sounded really pedantic.
@ George
Blah blah. Still no footage available. Very odd.
Good to see illegality being punished. If these unemployed “activists” want to protest why not do something useful, not self serving publicity stunts
That merits investigation, not indiscriminate retaliation.
how is it legal? you can’t legally carry out acts of violence, so why is violence ok legally, just because you got a van and presumably a company name and were paid by a landlord? they are just citizens, yet they’re standing there in balaclavas, ready to kick off, arm in arm with the gardai. there’s no rationale to it. could i just roll up in a used fire truck from tullamore with a few mates and balaclavas and say “yea, we were hired by the protestors to protect them, same as how those guys over there were hired to protect that building”
Technically you *can* carry out acts of violence legally. Self defence is one example.
In this situation the bailiffs(?) have the legal power to evict the protesters. They can ask them to leave, and if they refuse, they can physically remove them from the building. If they resist, they can use reasonable force.
If the protesters resist, and become violent – then the Gardaí should intervene and arrest the protesters for assault.
If the protesters don’t resist, but instead the bailiffs become violent – then the Gardaí should intervene and arrest the bailiffs for assault.
so.. then it’s weird that the Gardai and hired goons were standing shoulder to shoulder?
Short answer: yes.
yes if you’re an establishment contrarion…
How can someone be “establishment” and ALSO “contrarian”? ( Please note correct spelling).
I look forward to Mr “ I have DEGREES you know “ Response
DEGREES!!!
DEGREES!!!!!
+1
could he mean that on issues where popular opinion is that the Establishment/Authorities/Govt/ etc are not telling the truth/ are acting out of hand repeatedly yet certain commenters would always go contrary to that and stick to official lines? I’m interested too :)
https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/
Harris, a wet week in the job is bringing back the ‘Tans. Interesting to see our Gardai have fire retardant limbs that don’t need the same protection from fire as their faces do.
It’s an odd situation that I have no sympathy for the pseudo-Marxist occupiers. They are far from the saviours they portray themselves to be. They are spreading a sick ideology.
That being said the gardai here are arguably worse for bringing in the English heavies, they are like the black and tans 2.0.
It fair enough what a previous commentator has said that gardai need to protect their identity, but they should display an identification number so that they can be backtracked, the private security should also.
psssst ~ ‘backtracked’ doesn’t mean ‘tracked back’; it should but it doesn’t.
The Gardaí do have badge numbers on display[1]- and so can be tracked.
[1]some of them in other photos on BS have their shoulder numbers – others you can’t clearly see.
What’s a sick ideology? Law-of-the-jungle warped capitalism is sick, with the obvious benefits of capitalism come with social responsibility, those hoarding property for pyramid scheme profiteering while whole sections of society are being squeezed into soul crushing indignity is sick..I’m no ideologue – but if you keep fupping people over, what do you think will happen?
Hmm 1 van has 3 windows along the side the other 2 don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure they are not the same. has anyone seen any videos of the brutal assaults on peaceful protestors? Government must be doing a tip top job suppressing the truth
One side of the van has 2, the other side of the van has 3. The front of the van has metal pieces put in where the blue lights were.
When’s your next rocket science lab lesson? Hmm is right.
Plates are visible (can be made out) in one pic…
FG = UK police officer in charge of Irish policing (Irish security how are ye) = UK scumbags operating as terrorists + law flouting vehicle in full view of the gardai = FG
Congratulations FF for your full confidence in the blueshirts.
I hope Micheál gets the message in Cork next election.
Jesus this is worse than r eddit bandwagoning on things.
Facts:
Layabouts illegally occupy a building. Owner gets an eviction notice. Bailiffs evict.
Fake news.
the van in question is definitely ex-UK police & I don’t need a reg number to work it out…ex-UK Govt. vans make great camper conversions…easily done & u get some great deals e.g.
https://www.govplanet.eu/for-sale/Cars-2010-Mercedes-Sprinter-GBR/1625072
the conundrum is what is it doing here on Irish roads today?
somebody owns it & somebody is driving it utterly illegally
no
was it for this ?
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